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you thank you america today president obama crowned the national thanksgiving turkey and formally pardon to turkey as one named popcorn and another named carmel the pardon is meant to ensure that the two gobblers escaped the carving knife this holiday season but while turkeys seem to escape the chopping block it seems human beings do not because president obama has a historically low number of pardons artie's perry and boring reports. and here is president obama pardoning two turkeys popcorn and carville earlier this afternoon now pardoning has been a presidential power from the outset but burning turkeys is a relatively new tradition obama has now part intend to argue only thirty nine people a record low president harry truman pardon or comey teated one thousand five hundred thirty seven people by his sixth year in office but there's no records of him pardoning any turkeys so he did around with them was ronald reagan who officially part in the first turkey under his presidency pardons and commutations started dropping significantly reagan only pardoned three hundred thirteen people by h
you thank you america today president obama crowned the national thanksgiving turkey and formally pardon to turkey as one named popcorn and another named carmel the pardon is meant to ensure that the two gobblers escaped the carving knife this holiday season but while turkeys seem to escape the chopping block it seems human beings do not because president obama has a historically low number of pardons artie's perry and boring reports. and here is president obama pardoning two turkeys popcorn...
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to the generosity of obama two lucky birds were spared from the deep fryer today in fact of the course of his presidency obama's had the great privilege of saving the lives of ten of these adorable gobblers if you only cared this much about humans rotting away in cages across the nation so right now there are over three hundred thousand people in prison for drugs and guess how many nonviolent drug users obama's had the pleasure of pardoning a whopping eleven people has obama has almost pardon as many turkeys as he has drug offenders well if you count the massive hormones injected into these little birds i guess the number stands at twenty one pardon living things which is a shame considering how bomb as a former user of marijuana and cocaine so how many people who has obama pardoned in total while the number stands at forty just for comparison at the same point ronald reagan's presidency he had already pardoned three hundred thirteen people and reagan was a horrible president so go with the program obama last time pardoning but that a paltry and more time pardoning persecuted prisoners
to the generosity of obama two lucky birds were spared from the deep fryer today in fact of the course of his presidency obama's had the great privilege of saving the lives of ten of these adorable gobblers if you only cared this much about humans rotting away in cages across the nation so right now there are over three hundred thousand people in prison for drugs and guess how many nonviolent drug users obama's had the pleasure of pardoning a whopping eleven people has obama has almost pardon...
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president obama. >> with the power vested in me, i want to grant popcorn a full reprieve. >> popcorn now the national thanksgiving turkey beating out his brother caramel. he doesn't have to worry about survivor's guilt. caramel got a pardon too. >>> another tradition, the lighting of the national menorah. for the first time in 125 years, hanukkah and thanksgiving happened at the same time. the 8 day jewish holiday started tonight at sun down. >>> still ahead, catching fire. protecting your home, how to avoid a kitchen catastrophe. >>> and the danger of china's ice city, an avalanche out of nowhere. we're back in two minutes. you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i'd be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you? ♪ when you think about it, isn't that what retirement should be, paying ourselves to do what we love? ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] laura's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today her doctor has her on
president obama. >> with the power vested in me, i want to grant popcorn a full reprieve. >> popcorn now the national thanksgiving turkey beating out his brother caramel. he doesn't have to worry about survivor's guilt. caramel got a pardon too. >>> another tradition, the lighting of the national menorah. for the first time in 125 years, hanukkah and thanksgiving happened at the same time. the 8 day jewish holiday started tonight at sun down. >>> still ahead,...
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. >> thank you. thank you for coming today and thank you to the audience for watching us. [applause] >> coming up, a discussion on the effect of digital technology on journalism. then, president obama joins us at the dreamworks studio. this is followed with a deal reached on a ran on the new clear program. day before the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, the consumer federation -- releasednd the their spending results and you can see that on c-span. later, president obama pardons the national thanksgiving turkey. the whiteny is at house and you can see live at 1:15 eastern on c-span. weekend since 1998, book tv has brought to the top nonfiction authors. >> i think that women's identities are tied to work in a way that we may not like and find disturbing. it is true will stop when i look at marissa mayer, who was chosen to be the ceo of yahoo! when she , she wasly pregnant asked how much maternity leave and she said none. -- that was not the way i would do it because i took funny of maternity leave. i feel that that is a kind of woman that there is space for.
. >> thank you. thank you for coming today and thank you to the audience for watching us. [applause] >> coming up, a discussion on the effect of digital technology on journalism. then, president obama joins us at the dreamworks studio. this is followed with a deal reached on a ran on the new clear program. day before the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, the consumer federation -- releasednd the their spending results and you can see that on c-span. later, president...
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thank you very much. i know this has been a long process, and congratulations are no o in order because many people say it was the sanctions you helped create that got iran to the bargaining table. the question from netanyahu and other critics on the hill is why take your foot off the accelerator now? why not, in fact, increase the sanctions to make sure that iran complies? >> thank you, andrea. good to be here. we are going to continue to enforce our sanctions, enforce our sanctions very vigorously. in this first-step deal, there is a very modest relief package that, you know, frankly the price for getting the iranians to halt their nuclear program, roll it back in significant respects, and agree to really intrusive inspections over this six-month period is very limited. it's very targeted. and it's entirely reversible. so we have allowed the iranians to have a little bit of additional commercial activity, a little bit of money, but the vast bulk of our sanctions, the sanctions that have really brought t
thank you very much. i know this has been a long process, and congratulations are no o in order because many people say it was the sanctions you helped create that got iran to the bargaining table. the question from netanyahu and other critics on the hill is why take your foot off the accelerator now? why not, in fact, increase the sanctions to make sure that iran complies? >> thank you, andrea. good to be here. we are going to continue to enforce our sanctions, enforce our sanctions very...
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. >> thank you. >> we have been hearing for a long time now the danger of cyberattacks on national security, and we have been talking about the corporate grounds for the most part. where do you see this going? and is this realistic? when will it happen and what can we do about it? >> okay, you said academics don't look in the future. so look into the future. [laughter] >> the biggest problem is espionage and disrupting systems and where is this going in the future? well, that is a great question. do let me go to the edwards noted revelation for a moment and that they part of the picture. the u.s. government, the nsa is beyond capable than they intercept more data and more information than many people previously assumed. i think one of the big questions of the future what does that mean? what does it mean for intelligence? what does it mean for the balance between western intelligence agencies in other countries. and i understand that we are very concerned about what is going on at the moment and some
. >> thank you. >> we have been hearing for a long time now the danger of cyberattacks on national security, and we have been talking about the corporate grounds for the most part. where do you see this going? and is this realistic? when will it happen and what can we do about it? >> okay, you said academics don't look in the future. so look into the future. [laughter] >> the biggest problem is espionage and disrupting systems and where is this going in the future? well,...
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. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> tomorrow is thanksgiving and president obama will pardon the national turkey later today at 1:20 p.m. eastern. secretary chuck hagel released a thanksgiving message department employees and service members today reading to those deployed overseas. we continue with more from our q&a series later today. is with thee weave and can i get -- what is with the cleveland clinic at 7:00 p.m.. >> we have to understand what is going on a healthcare across the country. we have got their in a situation where we do we had to change healthcare. healthcare has become so expensive in the united states oft it is now consuming 18% the gdp. it is turning to eat into things like education and other social programs that we want to have and need to have. we are more expensive than any other country in the world. harness that inflation rate. we have to control it and bring the costs down so tha
. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> tomorrow is thanksgiving and president obama will pardon the national turkey later today at 1:20 p.m. eastern. secretary chuck hagel released a thanksgiving message department employees and service members today reading to those deployed overseas. we continue with more from our q&a series later today. is with thee weave and can i get --...
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. >> thank you all very much. a great discussion and we are only ten minutes over so thanks. "-close-quotes peanut >>> on tuesday former middle east adviser to president obama dennis ross took part in a panel discussion on the foreign policy challenges facing the president. among the topics of the recent agreement with iran on its nuclear program and efforts to begin peace negotiations in serious. hosted by the new america foundation, about one hour and 40 minutes. >> i run the national security program here. this is part of a series that we have done over the past couple of years with our partners, the center for the new america security and the american enterprise institute. it's the seventh in a series of programs we have been focusing on national security. we have an all-star team to talk about the coming challenges and opportunities for the obama administration in the next three years. they are ambassador dennis ross on your far left who is incredibly distinguished public service career focus back to the jimmy carter administration and he is the author of multiple books
. >> thank you all very much. a great discussion and we are only ten minutes over so thanks. "-close-quotes peanut >>> on tuesday former middle east adviser to president obama dennis ross took part in a panel discussion on the foreign policy challenges facing the president. among the topics of the recent agreement with iran on its nuclear program and efforts to begin peace negotiations in serious. hosted by the new america foundation, about one hour and 40 minutes. >>...
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thank god that he found the right protesters. >> this is important. everyone in the area should support them. >> let's go to politico. this is mike allen. we have a look at the playbook. good morning. >> good morning and happy get away day. >> if people can get away today. mike enzi is under fire and the group americans for job security has put up an attack ad tying senator enzi to obama care. let's take a look. >> the obama care exchange was launched in wyoming. in a conference with barack obama, mike enzi praised them. >> i like the exchanges and the exchanges can be good. >> wyoming's obama care has the most expensive premiums in the country. it's marred by glitches. mike enzi we don't like the liberal obama care exchanges. >> i would have stung out with it one more thing. >> the exchanges? that's a good one. we know what the margin is right now. he has a fairly comfortable lead over liz cheney in this primer. does this hurt him in. >> there is a basic problem with the ad. senator enzi voted against obama care. he voted to defund it. he voted to re
thank god that he found the right protesters. >> this is important. everyone in the area should support them. >> let's go to politico. this is mike allen. we have a look at the playbook. good morning. >> good morning and happy get away day. >> if people can get away today. mike enzi is under fire and the group americans for job security has put up an attack ad tying senator enzi to obama care. let's take a look. >> the obama care exchange was launched in wyoming....